How to remove copper of a tv yoke the proper way

Good try. Throw a few into a pillow case smash with a 2 lb hammer. Done. No mess. No debris or metal clips flying at your eyes.

I zip tied the leg of an old pair of blue jeans and drop them in there and smash the hell out of it with the ole 3lb Estwing. Done in about 3 seconds. Shake it all out in a shallow bin, pick out the copper and ferrite. Easy breezy!! The blue jeans hold up better than a pillow case in my experience.

Some of you might ask "why" well I just do it to kill time when I don't have a lot of scrap to mess with. Plus just trying new things to take stuff apart.

Tell me you aren't wearing the old blue jeans when you smash the hell out of them, RVS.

agreed, i try new things all the time, some work, some dont, you have to fail to succeed, nice video

Thank you guys for watching my videos. In the future I be putting more videos in here. Hopefully you learn something from them and sometimes you won't like the way I do things. Maybe you have a better idea. I would like to hear them just put a comment like some people did already. This forum is to learn and let others know how you take things apart. So far I got 200+ views and more to come. Again thank you guys

Question to the guys who smash the yokes - I smashed about 50 yokes recently and picked out the bulk of the copper, ferrite, and larger plastic pieces. The problem I now have is a tote full of plastic with quite a bit of copper left on it. What do you do with this left over material? I hate to throw it away, but as mentioned, time is money, and pick pick picking the remaining copper may not be the best use of my time.

Gotcha Brasscatcher. Back to pick pick picking when I have the time.

How much copper is in a average TV. Less then a pound?

If a tv/monitor yoke took me this long I'd have no life, I already hate them and they consume my life. I pop the clip off hit it a few times lightly in the right spot and it barely makes a mess and comes out clean, way faster.

So if a TV has about a pound of copper in it your making 2.70$ a TV?

Yep it depends on the TV model and year it was made. Sometimes older TVs have more copper, wires, and low grade boards. Sell everything that your yard will take. I will say from 3 to 5 bucks. Not a lot of money but more TVs you pick up the more the money increases. I love scrapping everything even if it is little like a "aluminum can". Yesterday when I was driving I saw a little TV and 10 boxes. I decided to stop and pick up the TV. Since I was out I decided to check out the boxes. I was thinking is only empty boxes and to my surprise there were lots of computer wires, hard drives and other computer parts. I loaded all the boxes and when I got home I separated all the trash and all the good stuff. When I took the scrap from that pile to the scrap yard I made 60 bucks thanks to that little TV.